Arlington mental hospital closes amid criminal case alleging it held patients against their will
An Arlington mental health hospital indicted on charges of holding patients illegally will shut down and is no longer taking patients, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported.
Sundance Behavioral Healthcare System had been indicted on 20 counts of violating state mental health codes, most of them involving holding patients against their will.
Attorneys representing Sundance, officially SAS Healthcare Inc., had maintained that the case was an instance of "unprecedented overreach" that would have major consequences. They argued that detention of the mentally ill was sometimes necessary for their own and others' protection.
But on Friday, Varghese Summersett, the law firm representing Sundance Behavioral Healthcare System, released a statement saying that the hospital couldn't maintain operations while defending itself in court and that all patients had been transferred elsewhere, the news station reported.
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